tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905980817505450013.post7161819727286816338..comments2013-01-08T03:23:43.996-08:00Comments on Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Plains: Germany Compiles First Nationwide Gun Register - (Since 1919 anyway)Travhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515902222246383820noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905980817505450013.post-34541009029236927062013-01-08T03:23:43.996-08:002013-01-08T03:23:43.996-08:00Herr Stahl,
Thanks for the correction. It&#39;s ...Herr Stahl,<br /><br />Thanks for the correction. It&#39;s good to hear first-hand from a gun-owner how the system works in Deutschland. I was looking at it from the aspect of &quot;they&#39;ve been WAY past registration in Germany before.&quot; I guess last time confiscation was dependent upon the honesty and compliance of the German people.<br /><br />Agreed that registration won&#39;t work any better there than it has in any other place it&#39;s been tried.Travhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06515902222246383820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6905980817505450013.post-47796340318033276742013-01-06T14:20:52.670-08:002013-01-06T14:20:52.670-08:00(A gun owner from Germany)
All legal guns in Germa...(A gun owner from Germany)<br />All legal guns in Germany have already been registered for decades.<br />It&#39;s just that so far they have been registered de-centralized by a few hundred local authorities that kept paper folders for all legal gun owners.<br /><br />When you move your residence in Germany you have to tell the registry office where you&#39;re moving. They will then spot the large red W (for Waffe/Weapon) and tell the local gun authority to send your folder to the office at your new residence.<br /><br />Now they are busy entering all that paper-based information they _already_ have in a computerized, centralized database the authorities (e.g. the police) can access outside usual business hours.<br /><br />Of course that will not solve one more crime, much less prevent one. Considering the two to three times as many illegal guns in circulation it should also change nothing for the police as far as self-protection is concerned (that the check for legal guns in the central database came back negative must not mean you can be careless).<br /><br />It will just be expensive to build.<br /><br />But the only novelty is that there will be one centralized register for all legal guns and not a few hundred de-centralized for all legal guns.T.Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351094909296928284noreply@blogger.com